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Best deal you've scored?; when buying mini's
Topic Started: 10th March 2007 - 01:07 AM (263 Views)
Scott
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My question to you is what is the best deal you've ever gotten buying miniatures. I just got a steal of a deal (making the deal tomorrow) but am super excited. I was just wondering if anyone else had any experiences like this.



So I post on a yahoo group that's a local GW group for Calgary (the city where I live) and someone came online this morning posting about some gw stuff for sale. I was shocked at the price since all the dark elf stuff was only 50 dollars while the orc and empire/brettonia stuff was 50 dollars as well. So tomorrow, when I go to play my weekly games of warhammer (at a local store). this fine fellow is meeting me there and selling me all these goodies for $100 cnd. (He's also selling various 40k/bfg stuff to other gamers that I play with on the weekends).

Essentially a rough breakdown for it is as follows.

10- dark elf riders
manticore
chariot
4 cold ones with command blister
sorcoress on cold one
bolt thrower
2 boxes DE warriors
extra bits
special wizard on mount

(Warhammer starting box contents)
35 Orc Warriors
1 orc warboss on boar
1 orc chariot
38 Empire Soldiers
1 empire General on Warhourse
1 Great Cannon
Rulebook1

2 boxes empire knightly orders
Lance of brettonian knights
box of orc warriors
box of slaanesh daemonettes
40 chaos space marines
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Ratmaster Rex
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Wow!! you lucky son of a ratspawn. The best deals I get are ebay liquidation sales at maybe half off. I still save alot of money but you scored bigtime.
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Scott
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Here's a link to that guys page with things for sale linky.

I think the necrons BFG stuff and IG are sold I'm picking up the orc and empire along with dark elves and then my buddies trying to get the space marines.
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Scott
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I just got everything and I must say wow some of the paint jobs are really good like on the manticore, also I might need a hand identifying a few things since I don't know what is what.

I'll get more picture later (i have to help a friend move today)
but here's a sneak peak at the manticore (i'll take better pictures later). Not all of the mini's are painted some are half done but there a good chunk of them that are. I think I'm going to stick with the colors he used on the dark elves it looks really good.

without further adu

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Scott
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More random pictures.

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I got a good deal once, i had some bits somebosy wanted worth about £2-3, i would of expected in trade maybe one model. He gave me 20 empire milita, and he even threw in unexpenctadly a wizard and the army book ^_^ shame i didnt play them, but i sold them on ebay for around £25
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Scott, that is a fantastic deal you got there. I can't help but feel a little bit jealous.

I once bought some dwarf stuff on ebay for $40, then resold half of it (I kept a unit of warriors, two bolt throwers, and a grudge thrower) for $56. I figure that was me scoring a pretty good deal.
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I got the whole Moria Fellowship of the ring, for free. And a Wartrakk ^_^
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Nice pull there Scott!!

My best one was when I got the 40K Rulebook, scenery, 15,00pt Eldar list (including an Avatar, Wraithlords, Vipers and the lot) all for just $20 Canadian; the whole thing was probebly a lot closer to $200 if not more...
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I once bought six bloodbowl teams for app. twenty euros. ^_^... Best deal in a long, long time.

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Scott
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I added things up last night based upon the current prices on the canadian GW online store. It came out to $999. Plus there were things I didn't even count, like 2 files the 6th edition rulebook, bits and pieces, Some parts from the witch king dragon box (everything but the dragons legs ears head and body) (so like the witch king the wings and the hands and the saddle, the wings by themselves were priced at $20 cnd too).

Looking over it today, I realized the paint jobs were really good, the only thing I didn't like the look of was the orc archer boys, but they are pretty useless so I'll leave them as they are.
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